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SendDroid - no ReceiveDroid?

One thing that really annoys me is when someone sends out an email to ask for something, an opinion or idea for example, and you take the time and effort to reply to that email, and the original party not responding to your email in any way.

This is one common problem with SendDroid. Chandler is now known to spam people's inboxes but very seldom replies to emails.

Hey Chandler, you reading this? If you can't handle the number of emails you get, I'd highly recommend an assistant!

People been complaining a lack of response from your side on the Basic4Android forums and also on www.makingmoneywithandroid.com . I Hope you start appreciating the time developers are taking to communicate with you.

SendDroid - a 1-man show?

Many people are now wondering if it is a 1-man show. Though I believe it is not so easy to run this business as a 1-man show, I do believe SendDroid is being run by 2 people (sense the sarcasm!)

Idea acquisition

One cheap, and I'd say effective way of getting ideas and opinions is to ask the people who are using your products. And we developers would have tonnes of ideas and opinions we can share with ad networks.

Chandler recently sent out an email to fellow developers on opinions and ideas for SendDroid. I don't use SendDroid in my apps, as I had horrible fill rates and eCPM performance with them at the start, and I have decided to remove aggressive ads from my apps for now.

I did reply to Chandler on this email though. As the idea of Alert Ads Pro was quite interesting.

Banner blindness is common these days in apps, thus the lower revenues potential from them. SendDroid basically brings the banners "into your face" with the pop-up banner ad. A miniature interstitial if you think about it.

My Idea

I sent an email to SendDroid, asking for a non-sdk version of this implementation. Why a non-SDK implementation. Well, the ads are basically banners that are shown in a pop-up. It is possible to show banners in webviews, like what Leadbolt has.

Also it is a matter of time before SendDroid starts showing up in all those anti-virus apps, and developers start getting 1-star ratings with comments like "It is a virus!". A non-SDK implementation would be really good in this case.

Closing...

I'd love to thank you for reading this and all the previous and future blog entries :D There, a small thank you email from Chandler would have been welcomed (pun intended!).

Hello BillI wanted to ask you about Smaato. A know there is a time that you made it. I imported SMAATO SDK and your Library . Code:Sub Ads Dim mBanner As MESSmaatoBanner mBanner.initialise (pub ID, adspace id) mBanner.loadAd mBanner.autoRefresh (True)End Sub

All compiled but it doesn't work on phone. App stoped.Maybe this is becuase SDK is new. I looked and there is no com.smaato.SOMA.SOMABanner in their SDK , i think it is changed to com.smaato.SOMA.BannerView. (Java Decompiler)Maybe you will update your library ?

I wanted to ask you also. Did you try showing different ads by checking what timezone is now on user's android phone ? For example if timezone belong to Europe then show MobFox / Madvertise , if Asia and Africa then Buzzcity / Inmobi and so on .

I am facing a problem with Applovin's banner ads. When i first signed up for them, even though with little downloads i was gettin eCPM around $2.5 to $3.0, but now after 2 months, avragin 2 laks impressions over a week, the average eCPM is as low as $0.40. I wonder they gave me the higher eCPM rates coz i was new and now they r showing their true face.

So i was wondering what banner ad network I should try? InMobi, MillenialMedia, Admob or any other suggestion.

My eCPM of AppLovin's Banner is (last 30 days average) $0.57... interstitial is $2.45, certainly there is a slowdown with the banners.

I will check with AppLovin about this, might be a slow season for them, but lets get some words from them instead.

I havent tried inMobi for a long time, MillennialMedia was good back then, and I've heard positive reviews about them from other devs too. Maybe you can try that. These are CPC networks though, so ecpm will be low overall.

My eCPM of AppLovin's banner is even worse than yours. Now it's only $0.20! They said it happened because of Google Play. I hope the eCPM will be high back in next month or I need to find another ad network haizzzzz.

When releasing a new app, it is understood that it will rank far down the food chain. After all, your app is new and unproven just yet.

What Google has done on the Play store is that they have given new app an opportunity to live, a chance to get to a more respectable place in the world of the unknown, the Google Play ranking algorithm.

Good looks go a long way in getting downloads for your apps. I'm a fan of looking out for beautiful app designs. I've looked at so many apps, gotten so much inspiration, but have yet to achieve anything that I can be proud of.

Blame genetics if you must. I am a developer, and although I play the guitar and love music and beautiful art and images (even tried photography once), I suck in the design area. I can give an idea, a design, but cant execute it. I'm a coder damnit!